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Date: May 22nd, 2008

That Would Be the Rhodium Card

22 May, 2008 (16:01) | Silly | No comments

(Rhodium being a very expensive metal)
Nigerian phishing email
This is to officialy inform you that we have verified your CONTRACT/INHERITANCE payment of US$450,000,00and we the Senate committee on appropriation and finance have arranged your payment to be paid with an atm card in regard to an order from MR. President Alhaja Musa Yara’dua (GCFR) Federan Republic [...]

Still Better Than “A Burns for All Seasons”

22 May, 2008 (05:54) | Other science, Silly, Sports | No comments

More video that doesn’t have George C. Scott saying, “My Groin!” The Science Of Ball To Groin at glumbert. (Some annoying ads — and nothing else — tend to pop up on the video) This time, tennis balls (the projectile, not the target), while last time it was a baseball, but with [...]

Toys in the Office: Special Blasphemy Unit

22 May, 2008 (04:46) | Silly | 1 comment

It’s a hand-held catapult-like device to chuck things, and yes, those projectiles are small nun figurines. So, it’s a NUN-CHUCK, just like it says.

I don’t show this off to just anyone at the office; I wait until I know them and use my judgement. But this is the internet. Caveat emptor.
I really [...]

The Long and Winding Coil

22 May, 2008 (03:49) | Physics, The Lab | 1 comment

One project over the last several weeks has been winding coils for the atomic fountains. There are two different requirements, one is the so-called “C-field” coils and the second is the MOT (magneto-optic trap) coil pair.
The “C-field” is the bias field in an atomic clock that essentially tells the atoms which way [...]

 

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